Monthly Archives: August 2009

This is “Raven”, our 400th cat spayed or neutered since August of 2008.  As you can see, Raven is a gorgeous Seal Point Siamese kitten, and believe it or not, he and three of his littermates were roaming the streets of Mendota and being cared for by a concerned citizen.  Raven is not the first Siamese we’ve encountered on the streets – to date we have trapped and neutered several Siamese, a couple Himalayans, and one Persian.  Any breed of cat can wind up homeless and once they start breeding,  the kittens, even purebred, ‘exotic’ breeds like Siamese, quickly become feral.

Fortunately for Raven and his littermates, his family tree stops at Illinois Valley Cat Taxi, and his second life begins.  All 4 kittens from this litter have been spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and are being relocated through our Barn Cat Adoption Program to a safe new home.

Do you feed Purina cat or dog food?  If you do, Purina would like to give you some free $3.50 coupons for any of their cat or dog foods, any size!  Plus, each time you redeem one of these coupons, Purina will donate $1 of pet food to Illinois Valley Cat Taxi to help us rescue and feed homeless cats.

Simply go to www.GiveABowl.com and download your free coupons.  Please remember to select Illinois Valley Cat Taxi as your favorite animal welfare organization so that we receive the $1 Purina donation.

If you purchase the 3.5lb bags of Purina Cat Chow at Walmart and use this coupon, the bag costs only a few cents to you!  If you cannot use the cat food yourself, please consider donating it to us.  Purina’s Give-A-Bowl program is a great way for you to help out our cats without any financial obligation.  Thank you!